Jew vs German - What's the difference?
jew | german |
An adherent of Judaism.
A person who claims a cultural or ancestral connection to the Jewish people (see secular Jew).
* William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (Act III, scene I)
A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality.
A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is the most populous ethnic group in Germany; a person of German descent.
A member of a Germanic tribe.
An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg and a small part of Belgium.
Of or relating to the nation of Germany.
* 2001 , Donald L. Niewyk, The Jews in Weimar Germany (ISBN 0765806924), page 31:
Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent.
Of, in or relating to the German language.
As a verb jew
is (offensive) to bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud.As a proper noun german is
a german, teuton.jew
English
(Jew)Noun
(en noun)- I don't have a religion, but my sister is a Jew and my brother is a Wiccan.
- Hath not a Jew' eyes? Hath not a ' Jew hands, organs
- dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
- the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
- to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
- warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer
- as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
- If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,
- do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Usage notes
* The Jewish community overall has a common religion, culture, identity, and ethnicity, but individual Jews do not necessarily share all of these; therefore, a person might be a Jew by one standpoint but not by another. * Additionally, there are some religious groups that identify themselves as part of Judaism, but that other Jewish groups might not; hence, use of the term Jew often depends on the speaker's opinions. * The noun Jew'' is not offensive, and the overwhelming majority of English-speaking Jews use the noun ''Jew to identify themselves. * That said, it has become offensive for historical reasons to use the word Jew'' attributively, in modifying another noun (as in "Jew lawyer"); the adjective ''Jewish is preferred for this purpose. * Additionally, the derived verbs jew'' and ''jew down are considered offensive, as they reflect stereotypes considered offensive.Hypernyms
* religionist, Abrahamist. theist, creationistCoordinate terms
*Synonyms
* Jewess (qualifier) * Hebrew (dated) * Yahudi (quranic) * Israelite (dated) * kike (derogatory) * Moses (qualifier) * yid (derogatory) * heeb (derogatory) * sheeny (derogatory) * hymie (derogatory)Hyponyms
*halakhistDerived terms
* Wandering Jew * Jewhatred * Jewsrael *ex-Jewgerman
English
Alternative forms
* (abbreviation):Noun
(en noun)- Rome was sacked by Germans and the Western Roman Empire collapsed.
Synonyms
* (member of the German ethnic group) Teuton * (member of the German ethnic group) Boche, Fritz, Hun, Jerry, Kraut (qualifier)Hypernyms
* EuropeanProper noun
(en proper noun)- German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.
Synonyms
* (language) High GermanSee also
* (de) * Language list *Adjective
(en adjective)- In Prussia, always the most progressive of the German states during the Weimar years and a stronghold of the two parties, Jews could be found in virtually all administrative departments .
- Her German husband has blond hair.
- We take German classes twice a week.
- Because the instructions were German , Yves couldn't read them.
Synonyms
* TeutonicStatistics
*External links
*Leo's German - English Dictionary]: from [http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/home_e.html Department of Informatics of Technische Universität München*